Halo: The Master Chief Collection features just about every single Halo game made. Fans of Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST may be disappointed those two entries aren’t included, but there is a valid reason for the exclusion according to franchise director Frank O’Connor.

GAME Australia and Turtle Beach are calling on the best Aussie Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops teams to compete in the Battle of the Clans, with a sweet prize pool offering corporate sponsorship.

Bungie is conducting all sorts of festivities for its 20th anniversary celebration. Though the most enticing challenge for Halo fans is Bungie’s steak challenge. Beat the developers at Halo Reach during their 24-hour Halo marathon and they’ll mail you a pair of steaks. That’s right, steaks.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection features just about every single Halo game made. Fans of Halo: Reach and Halo 3: ODST may be disappointed those two entries aren’t included, but there is a valid reason for the exclusion according to franchise director Frank O’Connor.

GAME Australia and Turtle Beach are calling on the best Aussie Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops teams to compete in the Battle of the Clans, with a sweet prize pool offering corporate sponsorship.

Bungie is conducting all sorts of festivities for its 20th anniversary celebration. Though the most enticing challenge for Halo fans is Bungie’s steak challenge. Beat the developers at Halo Reach during their 24-hour Halo marathon and they’ll mail you a pair of steaks. That’s right, steaks.

Nelson’s confirmed the release of a demo of Halo Reach, eight months after the release of the game. The taster for Bungie’s final entry in the series includes a single-player level, a competitive multiplayer map and a Firefight map as well. You can queue it to your 360 here. It’s currently exclusive for Gold members.

Somewhere within the past ten years, the Halo franchise transcended mere video games. You can encounter Master Chief within the pages of comic books or best-seller novels, soft toys and scale figurines, t-shirts and animations. According to 343 Industries franchise development director Frank O’Connor, this transition has all been organic, and it’s still growing.

If you were asked to guess what the best selling game of 2010 was you’d likely plump for CoD: Black Ops, and you’d be right. But how do you think it fared against the likes of the Avatar and Toy Story 3 DVDs or albums from Rihanna and Take That? Well, it outsold them all.

Microsoft has added Halo: Reach to the Marketplace’s Games on Demand service. Eurogamer reports you can grab the phenomenally successful shooter for £49.99, while retailers are offering new copies from as low as £24.99. In Australia, the download version will set you back $99.95, around the same price point as chain and major retailers. The […]

343′s released a behind-the-scenes look at the second map pack for Halo Reach, the Defiant Map Pack. The content, which is being made by 343 Industries and Certain Affinity, will feature three new maps: Condemned, Highlands and Unearthed. Video’s below. Defiant Map Pack releases next Tuesday for 800 MS points on Xbox Live Marketplace.